The invisible heartbeat: the beauty and soul of mathematics

In this article we look at mathematical esthetic experience from the point of view of analytical psychology. We analyze the myth that the universe is a harmonic entity that can be described through mathematics, which gives its beauty to our image of the universe, and we study the unconscious remnant...

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Autor: Mañosa Fernández, Víctor|||0000-0002-5082-3334
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/351023
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/351023
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2020.1852839
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mathematics -- Philosophy
Aesthetics
Matemàtica -- Filosofia
Estètica
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística
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Sumario:In this article we look at mathematical esthetic experience from the point of view of analytical psychology. We analyze the myth that the universe is a harmonic entity that can be described through mathematics, which gives its beauty to our image of the universe, and we study the unconscious remnant of this archetypal idea in contemporary science. Through our analysis, mathematical beauty reveals itself to be a link between the archetype of the cosmos and the wholeness of the psyche